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Album reviews: Waters attempts to eclipse Dark Side of the Moon

Original Pink Floyd member Roger Waters has a go at re-inventing the classic 1970s album, and occasionally succeeds

Roger Waters: Dark Side of the Moon Redux presents itself with the classic album’s original themes intact: greed, trauma, psychosis, and the impermanence of humanity

Roger Waters, Dark Side of the Moon Redux (SGB Music)

It is a brave person indeed that dares to tamper with one of rock music’s most acclaimed and revered albums, but when that person is Roger Waters, one of the originators of Pink Floyd’s 1973 Dark Side of the Moon, you are honour-bound to listen and aim to understand why.

Released as a 50th-anniversary reinvention of that multi-million-selling album, Dark Side of the Moon Redux ...